Experience & Skills

Richard’s journey in the fitness industry began as a gym instructor in Essex, UK, back in 2001 all the way to becoming CEO of The LAB, an award winning fitness center in Bangkok, Thailand with multiple locations & franchises. Most recently, in 2014, Richard & The LAB won the Expat Entrepreneur Award for foreign owned businesses in Thailand.

Richard has worked with hundreds of clients & specializes in rehabilitation, injuries and movement therapy. Richard’s training methodology trains the body as a whole interconnected unit, combining movement patterns that require total body strength, co-ordination and fluid technique. This approach sees quick and profound results.

Richard’s mantra is to live everyday through surrounding yourself with mentors and like-minded positive people, doing something that you are passionate about and making the most out of any situation.

Experience & Skills

Om is able to deploy a balanced training system that is specific to you; one that will motivate you, challenge you and ultimately deliver the results you desire. Her fitness philosophy is based on the fundamentals of human biomechanics – the bedrock of fitness for life and injury prevention.

Om has qualifications and strong experience working with pregnant and post-pregnancy clients, helping them regain their core strength, pre-pregnancy figures and mobility. She is also certified in helping clients with weight loss and lifestyle management, as well as anti-aging for senior members of the population.

Om believes in a personalized approach, built on a strong functional base that ensures you have the foundation to develop higher levels of strength, conditioning and fitness than ever before. Recognizing that you are unique, she will assess your current level and create a personal plan that builds on your strengths and improves your weaknesses. Om will inspire you to achieve challenging goals and ensure you enjoy the journey too.

Experience & Skills

Free analyses each client and carefully selects the right movements and exercises that will help them move better. No two workouts are the same with Free and his knowledge and attention to detail will not only make you stronger, but will also improve your posture, mobility and flexibility.

Free has competed competitively in Muay Thai. He uses his Muay Thai experience along with years of experience in physical fitness to create a uniquely fresh and fun style of training for both his group classes and private clients.

Experience & Skills

Boss was the Captain of the Thai National Flag Football Team that received the Gold Medal in the 2014 & 2016 Asian Games. Boss utilises his 10 years of knowledge and experience in sports conditioning & specific strength field in all aspects of his teaching methods.

Boss is also a protégé of the 8-week Intensive LAB Academy program. He carefully analyses and assesses his clients based on their movements and abilities to create highly individualized programs. His programs will both challenge you, as well as add variety and fun to your workouts.

Boss will motivate and inspire you to push beyond your limits what you think you can achieve. Ready, set, Hike!

Experience & Skills

Sasiprapa Udomsat or “Preaw” is an incredibly nurturing and uplifting personal trainer who enjoys designing each of her programs to the individual client’s background, physical concerns, and goals.

Preaw’s personal training style is a blend of functional movement patterns and strength training, which she applies to her wide variety of clientele, including the elderly, adult and children. She strongly believes that exercise, a healthy lifestyle and nutritional education will make a huge difference to your health while creating positive changes in your personal life too.

Preaw is known for establishing strong connections to each and every one of her clients. Above all, she believes that listening to the client, developing an easy going rapport and helping individuals closely track their nutrition are the ultimate keys to success

Vishal Haria, Personal Trainer

Qualifications

FiTour Certified Personal Trainer

Spartan SGX Coach

1st place AFC Men’s Physique 2016

3rd place Sports Expo Men’s Physique 2014

Competed in Baam Classic Strongman event

Experience & Skills

From a young age, Vishal was always the skinny kid, one who played a lot of sports but never had any muscle mass. After reaching his late teens, Vishal embarked on a journey to achieve a better physique with exercise and a better diet. By educating himself on effective and efficient methods, Vishal has been able to obtain the knowledge necessary to make the best progress from his potential. He has competed in various men’s physique competitions, winning his first one at the Asia Fitness Conference in 2016.

Using this knowledge, Vishal passes on what he learned to his clients so they can achieve their goal physique through efficient strength/bodybuilding/fat loss training programs and a solid nutritional plan.

Coach Arm, Personal Trainer

Qualifications

BSc Sport Science, Chulalongkorn University

Experience & Skills

Collecting all the necessary raw materials from a scholarship to Chulalongkorn University, Arm consequently enrolled in an apprenticeship at the LAB academy, quickly becoming a popular figure with his easy-going charm and relentless ability to achieve GAINS through weightlifting.

Arm has loved playing sports since high school & was a scratch golfer for 4 years. His passion lies in helping others achieve daily fitness requirements by motivating and pushing you to deliver your best in each training session.

By using a mixture of weight training for building muscle mass and incorporating functional fitness movements Arm will ensure you have fun and get a great pump at the same time!

Coach Veronica, Personal Trainer

Qualifications

National Academy of Sports Medicine

TPF Powerlifting Coach

Experience & Skills

Veronica believes that the benefits of physical fitness go beyond increasing the amount of weight one can lift or how fast they can run. By exploring and pushing the limits of what their bodies care capable of, she believes that everyone can learn to accept and appreciate their differences and approach their everyday lives with increased positivity.

With 2-years of training experience, Veronica is deeply committed to designing programs for her clients that will motivate and challenge them. Veronica draws on methods from powerlifting to HIIT to bodybuilding with a focus on developing her clients’ strength and conditioning.

Coach Paan, Personal Trainer

Qualifications

Bachelor of Sports Science, College of Sports Science and Technology, Mahidol University

TPF Powerlifting Coach

Experience & Skills

Paan lives with a passion for sports, health & fitness. Having competed in various swimming, martial arts and rowing events growing up, she became a swimming coach, taekwando and hapkido teacher, igniting her love for training others.

When it comes to training, Paan believes in a ’strength first’ approach. She is an advocate for strength training for everyone as it's a requirement for even a normal life. She maintains that it may not be easy, but it's also not that hard and will make daily life a little easier.

Paan completed a 9-month internship at The LAB before being offered a PT role as she continues to exceed expectations in group fitness classes and with personal training clients. Her expertise lies with Powerlifting and competed in her first competition in February 2019. Paan came first place in the U47kg TPF Bangkok Open, breaking national records for both benchpress and deadlift. She has been invited to represent Thailand at the World Classic Powerlifting Championships in Sweden in June 2019.

Ashley

"The LAB has changed my life, not just the numbers on the scale. I’m a 35 year old mother of 2 and was not interested in going to the gym. I have a very active husband who somehow convinced me to sign up for a Spartan Race. A friend referred The LAB and their Shredded program and that is where I began my training journey. I learned a lot about nutrition and how to eat healthier, changing the way I cooked for my whole family and as a result, my husband lost 20lbs! I spent the next 4 months attending group classes and lost 21lbs and 9 inches off my waistline. My clothes feel great, I have a lot more energy and I’m a lot happier and that’s what’s most important to me.

I particularly enjoy the sense of community with the Shredded members and the LAB360 members; I’ve made some great life long friends. All the instructors are really motivating and knowledgeable about training properly. A special shout out to Coach Rishi, Mark and Free for pushing me to succeed physically, as well as mentally.

I’m at The LAB almost everyday. My kids have also joined The kids' Spartan Training Program to train for the race and really burn off all that energy they have. It’s helped a lot with their coordination and teamwork. My journey is ongoing and I’m training for the next Spartan Race. I’d recommend The LAB and their programs to anyone wanting to make a change, whether that change is to gain muscle or lose weight and inches. It may seem intimidating joining a gym but you just have to walk through the doors, I did, and it changed my life."

Steve & Rachel

"Shredded’s community and The LAB environment in general has just been really motivating and really encouraging and we’ve met some really great people through it also.

We’ve always been fit and healthy and we’ll continue running and we’ll continue training at The LAB and we look forward to some of the new programs the team will launch later in the year."